<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>TurkishWeekly.net Europe News (10) </title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net</link><description>News, Comments and Articles from Turkey and the Region</description><language>en</language><copyright>© 2006 USAK.org.tr / ISRO.org.uk</copyright><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:40:59 +0200</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:40:59 +0200</lastBuildDate><category>Newspapers</category><item><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:40:59 +0200</pubDate><title>Analysis: Bluster, Bathos Permeate Georgia's War Of Words Against Russia, Abkhazia </title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55366</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">Analysis: Bluster, Bathos Permeate Georgia's War Of Words Against Russia, Abkhazia </td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Friday , 16 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since early May, Georgian officials have turned up to full blast the rhetorical heat of their arguments that the international community should unequivocally condemn recent Russian moves perceived in  ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55366 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:40:12 +0200</pubDate><title>EU: Lithuania's Motives In Blocking Russia Pact Difficult To Gauge </title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55365</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">EU: Lithuania's Motives In Blocking Russia Pact Difficult To Gauge </td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Friday , 16 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BRUSSELS -- Lithuania, citing a wide array of transgressions by Russia, has said it will continue blocking -- at least for another few weeks -- a European Union deal to start strategic partnership tal ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55365 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:39:34 +0200</pubDate><title>Analysis: Kremlin's Most Secretive Figure Moves To Cabinet </title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55364</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">Analysis: Kremlin's Most Secretive Figure Moves To Cabinet </td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Friday , 16 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were few surprises when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presented his cabinet picks to President Dmitry Medvedev this week. The official ideology of "continuity" seemed intact as Putin lar ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55364 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 08:42:11 +0200</pubDate><title>US Imposes Sanctions on Subsidiaries of Belarusian State-Run Oil Firm </title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55343</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">US Imposes Sanctions on Subsidiaries of Belarusian State-Run Oil Firm </td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Friday , 16 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The U.S. Treasury Department has barred Americans from doing business with three subsidiaries of the Belarusian state-run oil company Belneftekhim as part of sanctions against Belarus.

Thursday's a ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55343 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 08:30:49 +0200</pubDate><title>Russia: Labor Code as an Instrument of Social Revolution</title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55339</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">Russia: Labor Code as an Instrument of Social Revolution</td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Friday , 16 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently Russian mass media have focused on labor movement. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Russian journalists are writing about strikes and workers' protests on May 1,  ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55339 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:09:52 +0200</pubDate><title>Analyst: 'CIS must become number one priority in Russian policy'</title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55336</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">Analyst: 'CIS must become number one priority in Russian policy'</td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Thursday , 15 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Establishment of the Federal Agency for CIS Affairs is a ripe and necessary thing. It is astonishing that the Russian government was so slow in doing so,' a political analyst, member of the Union of  ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55336 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:56:50 +0200</pubDate><title>US House Panel Confirms Cuts to European Missile Program </title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55334</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">US House Panel Confirms Cuts to European Missile Program </td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Thursday , 15 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A House of Representatives committee has voted down attempts by Republicans to restore more than $200 million for a planned U.S. missile defense system in Europe. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, a final d ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55334 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:42:28 +0200</pubDate><title>Ukraine: Yushchenko versus Tymoshenko</title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55331</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">Ukraine: Yushchenko versus Tymoshenko</td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Thursday , 15 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my opinion, it is wrong to believe that the Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko is interested in her Cabinet's dismissal since it would keep her approval rating high. It is still less possib ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55331 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:37:38 +0200</pubDate><title>France, once again forces EU to delete 'accession'</title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55329</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">France, once again forces EU to delete 'accession'</td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Thursday , 15 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">France, slated to take the helm of the European Union in less than two months, has once again managed to erase the word "accession" from EU documents; diplomats have told Today's Zaman that the French ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55329 </guid></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 11:56:57 +0200</pubDate><title>Croat Leader 'Wanted Bosnian Independence'</title><link>http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55312</link><description>           <![CDATA[  <table border="0" cellspacing="7" cellpadding="0" width="600"><tr><td style="font-size: 16 pt;">Croat Leader 'Wanted Bosnian Independence'</td></tr><tr><td><div style="font-size:9px;color:#777777;">Tuesday , 13 May 2008</div><div align="left" style="font-size:12px; color:#111111; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Former Bosnian Croat leader accused of ethnic cleansing claims he supported an independent, integral Bosnia.

By Goran Jungvirth in The Hague (TU No 550, 9-May-08)

The ex-prime minister of the wa ..... </div></td></tr></table>        ]]> </description><guid> http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=55312 </guid></item></channel></rss>